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ISA 2009: New ICTs Increase Government Respect for Human Rights
As mentioned in my previous post, I am chairing a panel I organized on: “The Changing Role of ICT in Political Activism, Resistance and Human Rights” at the ISA conference in New York next week. The...
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ISA 2009: Digital Technologies in Kenya’s Post Election Crisis
The fourth presentation at the ISA panel that I’m chairing will feature research by Joshua Goldstein and Juliana Rotich on the role of digital networked technologies during Kenya’s post-election...
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ISA 2009: Panel on ICTs, Human Rights, Activism and Resistance
I just chaired a very productive panel at the International Studies Association (ISA) on the impact of ICTs on human rights, political activism and resistance. The panel featured the following...
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HURIDOCS09: Geospatial Technologies for Human Rights
Lars Bromley from AAAS and I just participated in a panel on “Communicating Human Rights Information Through Technology” at the HURIDOCS conference in Geneva. I’ve been following Lars’ project on the...
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New Tactics in Human Rights
I’ve been wanting to read “New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners” for a while and finally found the time on the flight back from Geneva. I would definitely recommend reading New...
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A Brief History of Crisis Mapping (Updated)
Introduction One of the donors I’m in contact with about the proposed crisis mapping conference wisely recommended I add a big-picture background to crisis mapping. This blog post is my first pass at...
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Peer Producing Human Rights
Molly Land at New York Law School has written an excellent paper on peer producing human rights, which will appear in the Alberta Law Review, 2009. This is one of the best pieces of research that I...
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Accurate Crowdsourcing for Human Rights
This is a short video of the presentation I will be giving at the Leir Conference on The Next Generation of Human Rights. My talk focuses on the use of digital technologies to leverage the...
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Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for...
This new book, Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, promises to be a valuable resource to both practitioners and academics interested in leveraging...
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